v. Obs. For forms see SHAPE v. [OE. forscęppan str. vb., f. FOR- pref.1 + scęppan: see SHAPE v.] trans. To metamorphose, transform; to misshape, disfigure.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gen. 308 (Gr.). Heo ealle forsceop drihten to deoflum.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 120. Hwat ȝif eni ancre, Jesu Cristes spuse, is forschupped to wuluene.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 4394.
| Ich forschop þe þanne | |
| In þise wise to a werwolf. |
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxlii. (1495), 698. Ydo made a mawmet: and forshaped it in the stede of god.
1480. Caxton, Descr. Brit., 54. A man and a woman most nedes ben exiled & forshapen in to likenes of wolues.
c. 1532. Dewes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 956. To forshape, transmuer.
1884. Child, Ballads, II. xxxi. 291/2. She explained that, having been daughter of the king of Sicily, her stepmother had forshapen her, the spell to hold till she had won the love and the sovereignty of what knight passed all others in good name.
Hence Forshaped, Forshapen ppl. adjs., transformed, misshapen. Forshaping, a deformity. Also Forschuppild [see -ILD], a transformer.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 120. Wreððe is a uorschuppild.
c. 1320. Cast. Love, 639.
| So þat he were al soþfast mon, | |
| Þat no forschippyng weore him on. |
c. 1440. Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), II. vi. Remedyes arne there ayenst thyse two synnes by yt whiche a forshapen soule maye be restored agayne.
1530. Palsgr., 157. A monstre, a wonderfull thyng or forshapen.
